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(adj)
Hideous or frightful.
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Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
Not usual, out of the ordinary.
Playful, funny, absurd.
Of or pertaining to fantasy.
Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
Not natural.
Extremely unfavorable; terrible.
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad.
Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
(of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
Absurd, or contrary to common sense.
Strangely unconventional; highly unusual and different from common experience, often in an extravagant, fantastic, and/or conspicuous way.
Deserving of ridicule; foolish, absurd.
Laughable, ridiculous, especially due to being small, inadequate, or low-quality; provoking derision.
(of an action) Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish
Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.
Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.
Bringing or warranting disgrace; shameful.
Nonsensical.
Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
Inspiring shock; startling.
Alternative spelling of wrongheaded. [Having an obstinately (persistently, stubbornly) perverse/erroneous opinion or judgement.]
Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.
Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning.
Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
Without sense; absurd.
(now rare) Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
Extremely or shockingly ugly.
having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented
Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.
(by extension) Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.
Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
Unusual of shape; misshapen.
Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.
Horrifyingly shocking.
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing.
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
Pruriently detailed and sensationalistic about something shocking or horrifying, especially with regard to violence or sex.
Offensive to standards of decency or morality.
Causing horror; horrifying.
Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
Differing from the norm.
(v)
(transitive) To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
Resembling or characteristic of a monster; monstrous, deformed.
Altered, transformed, or mutated into a form that is grotesque or amusing.
Frightful in appearance; hideous.
Repellently frightful and shocking; ghastly, horrific.
Having both serious and grotesque qualities or elements.
Resembling or characteristic of a hag; hideous, cronelike.
Shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.
(by extension) Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.
(n)
(fantasy) An evil spirit or monster; a ghoul.
(slang) Exceptionally ugly.
A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
(informal) Remarkably ugly; hideous.
Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Alternative spelling of ogreish. [Resembling an ogre; cruel and wicked.]
(informal, idiomatic, somewhat derogatory) Having a comical or humorous appearance.
Amusing; humorous; comical.
Having the shape or form of a monster.
Covered with scales or scabs; hence, very coarse or rough.
Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
A surname.
Obsolete form of grisly. [Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.]
Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming.
(slang) Odd; bizarre; unusual.
(rare) Characteristically or typically horrid; horrendous
Causing disgust; repulsive; distasteful.
macabre
Resembling or characteristic of a gorgon.
(informal) Characterised by or similar to monsters.
Resembling or characteristic of an ogre.
Resembling or characteristic of a gargoyle.
(informal) Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
(informal) Any small crawling animal such as a spider, insect or worm that is unpleasant.
(figuratively) Having an unkempt, unhealthy appearance.
A group of particularly brutal mercenaries who were active in Africa and Asia during the 1960s.
(rare) Extremely foul or ugly; horrible; terrible.
Alternative form of gnarly. [Having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled.]
Loathsome; hideous.
Morally low; base; despicable.
Distorted by warping; twisted out of shape
Marked by oddness; strange
Like a hag; ugly.
Characterised or marked by ugliness
The language of a people, especially the commoners.
Strange, and mysteriously unsettling (as if supernatural); weird.
Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.
Displeasing to the eye.
Resembling a gorgon; Gorgonean.